What does a random place on Earth look like?
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Deck from an Ignite talk at Data Ignite Boston on Dec 16, 2015 Based on this blog post: http://fact.is/randomplace
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What does a random place on Earth look like?
- 1. What does a Random Place on Earth Look Like? Let’s ask the data! Hjalmar Gislason, VP of Data @hjalli / @qlik
- 7. Five Random Points LATITUDE LONGITUDE Point #1: -11.57648598 -147.104104 Point #2: 36.39272192 15.24576048 Point #3: -15.79660947 -15.32783472 Point #4: -7.39762107 130.9382905 Point #5: 21.31180918 142.2912205
- 8. ?
- 10. First random place (ocean) @aliradford on Flickr
- 11. In fact all five LATITUDE LONGITUDE Point #1: -12 -147 279 km from land Point #2: 36 15 42 km from land Point #3: -16 -15 889 km from land Point #4: -7 131 43 km from land Point #5: 21 142 382 km from land
- 12. LATITUDE LONGITUDE … Point #6: 47 1 Point #7: -20 168 Point #8: 20 113 Point #9: 56 160 Point #10: 20 15 Point #11: 1 -175 Point #12: -32 162 Point #13: -56 -123 Point #14: 46 -95 Point #15: -57 -120 Point #16: 68 -132 Point #17: -16 62 Point #18: -54 -41 Point #19: 33 -108 Point #20: 6 94 Point #21: -11 129 Point #22: 14 154 Point #23: 28 62 Point #24: 0 -65 Point #25: 1 -52
- 18. LATITUDE LONGITUDE Point #1: -12 -147 279 km from land Point #2: 36 15 42 km from land Point #3: -16 -15 889 km from land Point #4: -7 131 43 km from land Point #5: 21 142 382 km from land Point #6: 47 1 Near Saint-Flovier, France Point #7: -20 168 214 km from land Point #8: 20 113 176 km from land Point #9: 56 160 Forest in Kamchatka, Russia Point #10: 20 15 Sahara in Niger, near Libyan border Point #11: 1 -175 183 km from land Point #12: -32 162 280 km from land Point #13: -56 -123 1920 km from land Point #14: 46 -95 Some guy's shed, Minnesota, USA Point #15: -57 -120 1811 km from land Point #16: 68 -132 Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada Point #17: -16 62 433 km from land Point #18: -54 -41 181 km from land Point #19: 33 -108 Ranch-land, New Mexico, USA Point #20: 6 94 86 km from land Point #21: -11 129 134 km from land Point #22: 14 154 643 km from land Point #23: 28 62 SE Iran, near Pakistan Point #24: 0 -45 140 km from land Point #25: 1 -52 Amazon rain forest, Brazil Point #26: -83 -5 Antarctica Point #27: -20 -138 210 km from land Point #28: -1 134 Forest in New Guinea
- 20. Thank you Hjalmar Gislason, VP of Data hgs@qlik.com See blog post: fact.is/randomplace
Editor's Notes
- What does a random place look like? Icelandic passport, and my first world credit card – can go anywhere… Bill Bryson: Still as big as ever on the ground level http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ImageUse/
- Beautiful, pristine like Lago Argentino in Argentina https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3410783929/
- Polluted, dark and gloomy like this one from River Yamuna in Delhi https://www.flickr.com/photos/kkoshy/1803617563/
- Picking a random spot Mercator projection Real size of Africa – West Wing episode
- Standing in the middle of the sphere. More likely to point at the equator than the poles.
- How will we know what they look like? Could go to Flickr, Google Photos, …
- How will we know what they look like? Started in 1998, not changed since 2001
- First random place (ocean) https://www.flickr.com/photos/aliradford/9710835955/
- In fact all five
- Next 20 - snapped
- #6 Field in France, not far from the small town of Saint-Flovier
- #9 Remote forest in the Kamchatka peninsula, Russia
- #10 Middle of the Sahara, belonging to Niger, not far from the border with Libya
- #14 Some guy’s shed in rural Minnesota
- #16 Lake area far up in Canada’s Northwest Territories
- Extend to get 5 pics. Full list. http://www.geomidpoint.com/random/viewmap.html?0|-12|36|-16|-7|21|47|-20|20|56|20|1|-32|-56|46|-57|68|-16|-54|33|6|-11|14|28|0|1|-83|-20|-1&0|-147|15|-15|131|142|1|168|113|160|15|-175|162|-123|-95|-120|-132|62|-41|-108|94|129|154|62|-45|-52|-5|-138|134
- 5 random places on Earth! (on land, that have been visited by nerds) Forest in New Guinea and you can’t really get there without a machete! Patch of ponderosa pine and juniper in a rocky ranch-land in the mountains of New Mexico
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